Looping in any scripting environment will be useful and fun. There are many forms of loops and in this tutorial we look at UNTIL loops. These loops are very similar to WHILE loops but we…
More Conditions Than ELIF Likes This lesson looks at using BASH case statements. The if statement in BASH is adequate for testing a few conditions. Adding each conditional test becomes cumbersome, though, when it needs…
Using BASH IF Statements Within the last lesson where we looked at using code snippets, we saw the use of a simple if statement. Although we will find IF statements useful by themselves they are…
Code Snippets Having looked at lesson 1 at the very basics of creating bash shell scripts we want to ensure that we code correctly. Creating code snippets that we can read into new shell scripts…
Running through this first lesson in creating bash scripts we will begin by looking at the BASH script fundamentals. These include the following objectives: Where do I create my scripts? How do I name scripts?…